Iran and Israel do not share common borders, have had no wars between them and have no territorial claims on each other. Moreover, under the Pahlavi regime the two countries had close ties, in fact a strategic alliance. This period of close ties had come to an abrupt end with the ascendancy of the Islamic regime. Among all the countries found blameworthy by the revolutionary movement, Israel was indicted on more counts than any other state. Moreover, Iran's Islamic arguments have put the Arab-Israeli conflict on a totally different footing – a religious crusade as against a political-national conflict.
